Apple's iWatch Is Cleared For Takeoffhttp://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iwatch-cleared-for-takeoff-2014-6/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:53:36 -0500Jay Yarowhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ad8adb69bedd80384f8cb6Marc MatozaFri, 27 Jun 2014 11:16:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ad8adb69bedd80384f8cb6
Apple has shown they have stopped innovating while the Android Partners [Google and Samsung] are full steam ahead. The last Apple announcement were nothing but "catch up" to what has been on Android for years. I have a Gear 2 and love it - it is a serious personal and productivity device. We will see if Apple answers the bell - my guess, another "copy cat" announcement.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ad808decad048165c5b816StockBet_comFri, 27 Jun 2014 10:32:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ad808decad048165c5b816
Another device for the NSA to spy on you with.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53acfe3b69beddee052ad276Douglas KeithFri, 27 Jun 2014 01:16:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53acfe3b69beddee052ad276
I hope it will be Craig Federighi that will be telling the audience about some new wearables device and not Tim Cook. I don't understand all this misapprehension about Apple's smartwatch. There are plenty of companies that already offer smartwatches and wrist sensor devices. Apple will simply be offering its own take on a smartwatch and it only makes sense they should try. How can Apple guarantee it will be a success and everyone will want one? They can't and shouldn't be required to. They just need to come out with a good product that does whatever they expect it to do for users. People seem to raise the bar impossibly high for Apple to succeed.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac8ec869bedd863c2ad276SteveSThu, 26 Jun 2014 17:21:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac8ec869bedd863c2ad276
@Peter:
Good points. "If" Apple is successful, their solution will indeed seem obvious after the fact. That's an attribute of good design. As you say, it's so obvious that nobody else will think of it before Apple. After Apple does it right, the tards will all claim prior art because other smart watches existed (albeit poor implementations).
Anyway, I say "if" not because I doubt Apple's ability. I'm just not sold on the device category. Then again, I thought the same thing about tablets before the iPad.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac7221eab8ea8c1dc21c25Peter BloodThu, 26 Jun 2014 15:18:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac7221eab8ea8c1dc21c25
Until they introduce it, you understand it, and it is.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac71d769bedd58432ad278Peter BloodThu, 26 Jun 2014 15:17:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac71d769bedd58432ad278
Yeah because life is just that simple to the disingenuously simple minded.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac717feab8eafd25c21c24Peter BloodThu, 26 Jun 2014 15:16:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac717feab8eafd25c21c24
Your standup tech comedy is a big fizzle, however you are the big joke. I look forward to the geek clueless like you who are about to see how it's done via Apple. Funny how everyone thinks it's so easy and obvious, AFTER Apple shows the way, and gives Apple zero credit. Google will fail until it copies Apple's effort. Get it right.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac706ceab8ea261cc21c27Peter BloodThu, 26 Jun 2014 15:11:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac706ceab8ea261cc21c27
Wow you're a clueless dismissive m0r0n aren't you? Apple innovates on top of other innovations, got it? Those who deny Apple innovates are biased monkeys incapable of handling the truth.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac6499ecad048e482ad278iamjamesThu, 26 Jun 2014 14:21:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac6499ecad048e482ad278
Damnit, I was really hoping AAPL wouldn't green light this... smart watches are impractical for every day use. It'll be next to impossible to make it a great product for that purpose.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac5e4069bedde1742ad27bfredlledThu, 26 Jun 2014 13:54:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac5e4069bedde1742ad27b
Meh. Apple just copies what others are doing, polishes up the rough edges, makes it work smoother/better and then packages it in a pretty box. No real innovation, like Thomas Edison does.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac53c66bb3f78a102ad276Paul RobinsonThu, 26 Jun 2014 13:09:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac53c66bb3f78a102ad276
Great column, save for one thing. Here come the grammar cops!
"And so, once again, the runway is cleared for Apple. In a few months, Tim Cook can take the stage and show us how a smartwatch should really work with the iWatch."
Just what we need! Two watches!
In case anyone's been left head-scratching, here's one of the many right ways to state this:
"Cook can take the stage and, with the iWatch, show us how a smart watch really should work."
Still, the parallel is there with Ballmer and the HP Slate-- and you'll be known as the first person who drew it!
[Note: For those who wish to point out errors in my comment… keep in mind, I'm a random commenter, not a columnist or writer! Different standards, folks!]http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac504a69bedd79382ad279HomeyThu, 26 Jun 2014 12:54:34 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac504a69bedd79382ad279
Personally I don't want a crippled, mini-screened version of my smartphone strapped to my wrist. So far that's pretty much what we've got from Samsung and the rest of the Android camp.
I'd bet my mortgage Apple goes in a completely different direction. Whether that direction is what consumers what is TBD.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac4ffaecad049f7b2ad276Beltway GregThu, 26 Jun 2014 12:53:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac4ffaecad049f7b2ad276
Every article on Apple written by Jay Yarow is just one big love-letter to Cupertino.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac4e3a6bb3f7f87a2ad27ahighflyingbullThu, 26 Jun 2014 12:45:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac4e3a6bb3f7f87a2ad27a
this writer hit the nail on the head, its very suspicious that samsung released 5 watches in less than a year. but iwatch is more likely to be a standalone device, i think it will be a pda type watch but sans the camera and phone modem.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac4c9269bedd8a282ad277deepak bhatiaThu, 26 Jun 2014 12:38:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac4c9269bedd8a282ad277
would be interesting to see what can they do more different from other companies doing "medical" monitoring? Wonder if people want something different and useful or just useful from Apple. Just having a ton of health sensors is also a very doubtful use case for a watch for masses. Also, its too wierd to have too many medical stats to look at on a continuos basis, more beneficial from a hospital point of view. But even wrist based heart monitors suffer from problems, because the wrist is too thick for optical pulses to accurately measure blood pressure. But having a scientific and rational dialogue on tech blogs, is becoming difficult because even journalist not just those who comment, are like fan boys. Like news organizations either right or left.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac4984ecad04b95a2ad27cMunkyThu, 26 Jun 2014 12:25:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac4984ecad04b95a2ad27c
I read your comment in a 5 year old's voicehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac438d69bedd680c2ad276NeatoThu, 26 Jun 2014 12:00:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac438d69bedd680c2ad276
I read your comment in eeyore's voice.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac30f2eab8eaa530c21c24TAThu, 26 Jun 2014 10:40:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ac30f2eab8eaa530c21c24
"But the bottom line is this: Google provided no real bumps on the road for Apple and its iWatch."...
yeah iWatch doesn't need Google's help on its road to failure.